Apophatic
(Today's workout accompaniment: NPR Saturday programming)
There's a religious concept I love called "apophatic theology." Its premise is that anything we can say about God is more false than true.
If you're a pessimist, there's little reason to love apophatic theology. Because it means we can never understand the divine. But if you're an optimist, it means there's always more. Apophatic theology means everything we say must be qualified by "so much more than …."
For example, Christians believe that God is love. An apophatic Christian would say that God is so much more than love.
The past few weeks have been apophatic than me. They've been "so much more" good, "so much more" stressful and "so much more" surprising than the mere vocabularly I possess can express.
How can I wrap everything into a single blog posting? I won't even try.
(Today's workout accompaniment: NPR Saturday programming)
There's a religious concept I love called "apophatic theology." Its premise is that anything we can say about God is more false than true.
If you're a pessimist, there's little reason to love apophatic theology. Because it means we can never understand the divine. But if you're an optimist, it means there's always more. Apophatic theology means everything we say must be qualified by "so much more than …."
For example, Christians believe that God is love. An apophatic Christian would say that God is so much more than love.
The past few weeks have been apophatic than me. They've been "so much more" good, "so much more" stressful and "so much more" surprising than the mere vocabularly I possess can express.
How can I wrap everything into a single blog posting? I won't even try.
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